'They picked on the wrong guy,' Michael Steadman said. 'It was wrong what he did, and my father raised me to be a man. To stand by what you say. And stand by what you do.'

Written by

Tim Walters

It's been a long fight, but Michael Steadman finally feels vindicated.

In 2009, the Cape Canaveral small business owner was sued for $15,000 after leaving negative feedback about a seller on eBay. The dispute was over a broken time clock for which Steadman had placed the winning bid.

After 4½ years of battling what he believed was a frivolous lawsuit, Steadman and his lawyer showed up at a Miami courthouse on Friday to learn the lawsuit had been dismissed by the plaintiff, Elliott Miller of Miami Beach. ...